Topic: Football

Our heroes are at full strength for Monday Night Football, and will be doing their thing live and in person from Parlor Sports in Somerville, Massachusetts. Expect laughs and games and jokes and guests. Expect not to be able to hear the ESPN audio track at all.

For this week's Monday Night Football rematch of Super Bowl I, our heroes at the Footballz Podcast are going back to their roots. No fancy stuff. No guests. Just a concerted attempt to provide something more fun to listen to than the ESPN broadcast.

We're not allowed to embed the extremely good rap anthem that Russell Wilson recorded to impress his teammates and cement his relationship with some of America's most popular brands. It's complicated. But we do have a transcript.

This week, Monsters rule the Midway with a mix of old-school brutality and new-school CTE symptoms, Mike Glennon throws a ball through a hole in the time-space continuum and the "drama" of ball-control offense.

A national team is still just a team. It can’t get by on the trappings of nationality alone. Sharing a nationality with the players is no substitute for sharing a sense of purpose with them. You need to know that when you look at them, they will sometimes look back at you. Otherwise, why does a team exist at all?

From the normal run of things, where each player is trying to create space for his teammates, everyone turns and looks to the winger to create something ex nihilo. At Arsenal, Gervinho was often asked to do this moment-forcing, and he struggled. Unshackled at Roma, he's thriving.